I would greatly appreciate if someone could help me set up and solve the following two problems.

1. If 7 cards are dealt from an ordinary deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that exactly 2 of them will be face cards? That at least 1 of them will be a queen?

Using the hypergeometric distribution formula, I said that this would be equal to 12 choose 3 divided by 52 choose 7. What am I doing wrong?

2. A random committee of size 3 is selected from 4 doctors and 2 nurses. Write a formula for the probability distribution of the random variable X representing the number of doctors on the committee. Find P(2<=X<=3).

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October 7th 2009, 12:38 PM

Soroban

Hello, Walcott89!

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1. 7 cards are dealt from an ordinary deck of 52 cards.
(a) What is the probability that exactly 2 of them will be face cards?

There are: . possible outcomes.

There are: .12 Face Cards and 40 Others.

We want 2 Face Cards and 5 Others.. . There are: . ways.

Therefore: .

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[(b) What is the probability that at least 1 of them will be a Queen?

There are: 4 Queens and 48 Others.

Find the probability of no Queens.
Then we want 7 Others.. . There are: . ways.
Hence: .
Therefore: .

October 10th 2009, 09:35 AM

qpmathelp

Quote:

Originally Posted by Walcott89

I would greatly appreciate if someone could help me set up and solve the following two problems.

1. If 7 cards are dealt from an ordinary deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that exactly 2 of them will be face cards? That at least 1 of them will be a queen?

Using the hypergeometric distribution formula, I said that this would be equal to 12 choose 3 divided by 52 choose 7. What am I doing wrong?

2. A random committee of size 3 is selected from 4 doctors and 2 nurses. Write a formula for the probability distribution of the random variable X representing the number of doctors on the committee. Find P(2<=X<=3).